Post #1999302
2026-04-16 13:37 UTC
I have been, and to this day remain, a huge LLM skeptic. I don't think it's coming for all the jobs. I think people will outsource decision-making to it and it will make really dumb choices more often than not, and it certainly isn't going to cure cancer or FTL transport
But the nature of my work means I need to try it out and learn about it and even be able to implement and manage it. I've started a side project vibe coding a little app and on the coding/app dev side of things it is scary good
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@mroach@ublog.mroach.com 2026-04-16 14:00
@mixdup@mastodon.social Same here. My biggest problem with it now that I have to deal with is people outsourcing thinking to it. I'm trying to convince people that struggling to elucidate a thought or come up with a plan is a *good* thing. The struggle is how you hone and refine your ideas and identify gaps in knowledge. Insert some adage about the journey being the destination. On the other hand I find LLMs pretty cool for learning stuff especially when I'm just not interested in learning the nitty gritty. I can say "write me some Windows 2000 C98-compatible code to enumerate AppleTalk zones using multithreading" and bam, it does!